Level 4 Research Project



Steps to writing a research essay


1. Put your research topic below (Due Tues, Sept 25)
  • Similalities and differences of Gandhi and Hitler

2. Find reliable web sources (3%) (Due Wed, Sept 26)


AICE is non profit organization in the United States. It was establishes in 1993 to make a good relationship between U.S. and Israeli. They are known as the publish of Jewish Virtual Library, which is their original online library and provide various Jewish imformation to us.They are hard to work to promote scholarship in the field of Islael studies, and to provide educational materials on Jewish history and culture.This article was written after 1997, so it is relatively new. This article said Hitler's childhood and his behavior, so we will use it as the material of comparison of Gandhi's childhood and Hitler's.

Dr Geoffrey.M is a proffesor at the Salk Institute and Adjunct Proffesor at the University of California. It was written in 2011,. Furthermore it is one of the BBC's articles.So it is currently article.So we can use this article for our research paper.This article says how Hitler managed their country and his chalacter as the leader. We want to use it when we cmpare with Hitler's character and Gandhi's.

Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He was be famous by his secod novel Midnight's Children (1981). This novel won the Booker prize in 1981. This article was reported in TIME. It was showed Gandhi's character and his idea. This article relates to the differnces of Gandhi and Hitler.

  • Karen Reams(2008.3.26) Adolf Hitler- the Child and Youth. Retrived from http://www.suite101.com/article/adolf-hitler-the-child-and-youth-a49039 Karen Reams is a British writer. She was graduated from Cambridge. Her latest article is the Sadism of Ilse Koch in 2008. We want to compare with childhood of Gandhi and Hitler.As this article refers to Hiter's childhood, we are going to retrive it.

Chris graduated with a BA (Honours) in History from Aberystwyth University in 1979 and has since studied at Loughborough University and gained a MA in management from Brighton University in 2000.This website was set up in 2000. This article explains about history of Hitler clearly.

Goodread is the website for readers and book recommendationd in the world. We can search the books and quotations. It was established in 2007. I believe this site is reliable , yet I don't know who wrote the Gandhi's quotation. Because, we can see all the member of the editors details of this site.

3. Write your outline with in-text citations and references (Due Thurs, Sept 27)
  • List the similarities and the differences of the people you are comparing

☆Similalities of Gandhi and Hitler
  1. They have dropped out school when they were young.
  2. They didn't hesitate to die for country.
  3. They were vegetarian
☆Differences of Gandhi and Hitler
  1. Character
    Gandhi: Shy( childhood), Hard on himself /Hitler: cruel, touchy
  2. Belief Gandhi: Hindu, nonviolence, asceticism/ Hitler: Christian, racism
  3. Event Gandhi: Salt March,non-violence and non-obedience / Hitler: Holocaust, dictartorship

4. Write your draft and put your references in the following (Due Tues, Oct 2)


The world has gone through several of wars. Beside of the violence, the destruction, the crime, and the injure ,the wars left what are famous names in the history of mankind. They are the leaders who bring about miracles to the world. Mahatma Gandhi and Adolph Hitler are two of the top leaders who changed the history of the world, and these two men were political leaders of high capacity. Gandhi was being the social leader of the people of India during the time when the country was under the control of the British Empire. Hitler was being the leader of the Nazi Movement before and during the Second World.. Both men who drew the passion among people, love or hatred , they also loved their people. Hitler and Gandhi both gained the respect of their people in very short periods of time. They were very stubborn and determined and no power could make them change their minds when set. They both had the extreme aspiration to triumph in the struggle for national liberation, and they changed forever the very face and character of their individual countries. In different ways, they became the important figures in the history of the world , Gandhi fought with love and trust in non-violence to give his life for the freedom and safety of his people, on the contrary, Hitler as the instigator of some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity . The differences and similarities between these men are quite obvious through their belief, character, and event.

 Gandhi was born on October 2 1869 in Porbandar, India. His father engaged in commerce , his family was fairly wealthy, and he had an older sister and 2 older brothers. His family believed Hindu faith and his mother told him to obey the Hindu customs. He was a shy boy when he was a child: he scared dark place and ghost. However, according to Rowena.A his school record was not good, and he smoked, which is prohibited in Hindu faith, by negative effect of his friends. When he was 13 years old, he married with Kastur, was called Katsturba later. Second, Gandhi had faith in Hindu. He was also interested another religion when he sent to prison in Johannesburg. He read religious books, such as Gita and Quran. Gandhi was vegan. According to Rowena.A, he had not eaten meat and eggs, and had not drunk milk except when he visited to London to study the law. He was generous for the other people because he accepted untouchable people, and lived with them. Furthermore, he was kind people. Because, for example, he established and offered Ambulance Corps to help care for injured soldiers of British in 1899 and for hurted African Zulus in 1899. Finally, he took another way to lead his country, India. He thought that people should not use the violence ways, and he claimed nonviolence and disobedience against British government. He said, " Non- Violence is a weapon of strong."(The Law of Love, M.K.Gandhi) Instead of violence, he prayed and fasted for India. Furthermore, he marched with his supporters to stop the monopoly of salt, it is called Salt March.

Second,Hitler was born in 1889. He was the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler and Klara polzl. His mother had 3 children died before he was born. In his childhood, he studied painting very well, and he had register for examination for Academy of fine arts Vienna, but it rejected him twice, because he lacked the academic background. His father’s sudden died on 3 January 1903, and after that, his mother died on 21 December 1907.After his parents are both dead, he escaped into Munich. At the break out of the First World War, Hitler volunteered joined to the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16. He participated the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras, and the Battle of Passchendaele. The experience increased his enthusiastic German patriotism; also he was shocked by Germany’s capitulation in November 1918. After the First World War, Hitler gets back to Munich. He enters to political circles and joined the Nazi party. In 1923, Hitler triggered beer hall putsch, because this event he was arrested for treason soon.During the course of the trial, Hitler's speech made his popularity increases, into the well-known character. In 1932, Hitler tried to become the president of Germany, but he failed. In 1933, Hitler succeeded to be nominated as prime minister of Germany. The Second World War broke out in 1939 Hitler launched on the war of surrounding countries that expanded war situation, he became one of the main contributing to world war 2. During that time, Anti-Semitism and racism influenced him. The German Nazi party began to authoritarian ruling, begin from 1939 to the slaughter of Jews until 1945, killed about 6 million Jews.The Second World War ended in 1945, in the April of that year, Hitler committed suicide in a basement.


When we look back on these two men, Gandhi will forever be known as one of the greatest men who ever lived, while Hitler is what people think the devil would be like. Both of these men had great amounts of power, but each used it differently; one for good, one for evil. It’s obvious who came out on top. Both of these leaders accomplished their goals as well. The differences and similarities between these men are evident through their belief, character, and event.